Research Interests:
Robust speech recognition
Speaker verification
Cursive script recognition
Voice enabled information access systems
Indian language speech database
 
 

Dr. Samudravijaya K

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Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D (1986), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
• M.Sc.(1979), Mysore University.
• B.Sc.(1977), Mysore University.

Awards

•   Prof. Rais Ahmed Memorial Lecture Award, 2008.
•   Sir C V Raman Award, Acoustic Society of India, 2003.
•   Indian Phonetic Society Lecture Award, 2002.
•   UNDP Fellowship for research at CMU, Pittsburgh (1988)
•   Best Ph.D. Thesis Award during the year 1986, Awarded at the DAE Nuclear and Condensed Matter Physics Symposium, Bombay, 1986.

Positions

• 1987 -  : Scientific Officer, TIFR, Mumbai, India.
• 1995 - 1997: Project leader, Speaker verification lab, Aum Systems Inc., New Brunswick, NJ.
• 1988 - 1989: Visiting Scientist, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

•   Speaker authentication system (part of e-commerce project) (DIT) 2000-2002.
•   Hindi speech recognition system in the context of a railway reservation enquiry task (DoE / UNDP) 1988-1993.

    Graduate courses:

• Statistical Pattern Recognition
• Speech Technology
• Multimedia Communications
• Artificial Intelligence

• GMM and HMM at WiSSAP'09; download slides.
• Introduction to Language Models at WiSSAP'06; download slides.
• Speech Recognition and Synthesis at KBCS 2004; download slides
• Speech and Speaker Recognition: A tutorial, at Int. Workshop on Tech. Development in Indian Languages, ISI, Kolkata, 2003.

Professional activities

• Convenor:
  • Workshop on Spoken Language Processing, June 22, 2009
  • School on Indian Language Speech Recognition, 2008.
  • Workshop on Spoken Language Processing (2003), an ISCA supported event.
• India representative, Oriental COCOSDA Committee (2003 - )
• Treasurer, Acoustic Society of India, Mumbai chapter (2002 - )
• Co-chair,Technical Committee, Oriental COCOSDA 2004
• Member, Technical Programme Committee: WiSSAP 06:09, ICON 2004:07, KBCS 2004, ICSLT 2004, SPCOM 2004.
• Reviewed papers submitted to
• ICASSP(04-09).
• Interspeech
• Sadhana.
• Int. Journal of Human-Computer Studies
• Int. Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Language

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Mail: School of Technology and Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 1 Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai-400005, India.
Email   : samudravijaya _AT_ gmail .com or chief_AT_tifr.res.in         Telephone : 91-22-22782322;